From the Jerusalem Post. Rest assured, there will be no "editorializing":
Can an American reality TV series, in which US doctors are thrust into the sociologically complex, perplexing and life-and-death situations of a fast-paced Jerusalem hospital, become the next Survivor?
Hollywood heavyweights Steven Spielberg and creator and producer of classic sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond Phil Rosenthal sure think so…
[Rosenthal said] "The idea is to take a small group of American doctors and bring them to this hot spot in the world. Shaare Zedek is one of the busiest hospitals in Jerusalem, and it’s a kind of fascinating situation where you have Arab doctors working next to Jewish doctors, patients of all kinds as well, and you have to check your religion at the door.
…"To me it was important that it would be a reality show and not a documentary," he said. "So there is no hidden agenda, this is how it is, we are not presenting our views.
"If it’s fictional, then you’re editorializing. We aren’t editorializing, and we’re letting the situations speak for themselves."
How about a reality TV show about the Occupation? About the daily life of Palestinians under Occupation?
That’s where it begins. The terror attacks are where it ends.
Well said, Cliff. And what of the Palestinians who can’t get to Shaare Zedek because of the roadblocks.
It’s going to be hard to check your religion at the door of Shaare Zedek hospital. For instance, this hospital has a synagogue but no Christian or Muslim chapel. I’m sure in other areas such as bio-ethics the hospital (which is allied to the modern Orthodox) is governed by traditional Judaism. It’s like checking your religion at the door of a Christian hospital in an officially Christian country.
A few years ago Shaare Zedek’s director of ER was killed in a terrorist attack. I wonder if they chose this hospital for that reason.
They will do anything to normalize the unthinkable
They should do a reality show on what life was like as Dhimmi in the Arab world.
What would really be interesting would be what life was like in Israel during the almost daily suicide bombings during the intifadas. They could show it through the eyes of a bus driver in Israel. Never knowing if the next passenger was going to blowup. It would be riveting.
How about a reality show on what life is like NOW for any Palestinian? Since most of them are very young, make it a young Palestinian.
Mr Predictable has his usual comment.
Would it look anything like this?
link to youtube.com
Whoa, Chaos — that was raw.
Uhm.. the Dhimmi system has not existed for 300 years. Why are you bringing up medieval Ottoman law to justify your retardation?
And the Dhimmi system (which means “protected peoples”) was a millions times better than the “Pogrom” system in Europe, wouldn’t you say Julian?
Julian is only repeating the standard line from Little Green Footballs and the other dens of Islamophobia where he normally hangs out.
Julian – The TV show is not about how hard it is to be a Palestinian in Israel or the hardships of a Palestinian taxi driver on the West Bank, never knowing when a soldier will harass them or a settler attack them.
This is American, escapist TV. Race problems? Not in our ER, where White and Black medicos work shoulder-to-shoulder to save lives! Spielberg brings us hope from the land of never-ending conflict. The practice of medicine heals the divisiveness of religion. Blah, blah, blah. This is as “real” as “reality” gets.
“we aren’t editorializing?” How could anyone be so obtuse?
This will be pure propaganda.
It’s part of the re-brand IsraHell campaign. And they brought in the big-wigs to do it.
I think Spielberg was trying to get some Zionist Nazi pardoned who flew in weapons from the US to Palestine during the 1948 War, and of course everyone’s marching to Israel at the end of Schindler’s List.
All the Hollywood Jews are Zionist and the notion that this will be ‘reality’ is a joke.
They say ‘Arab doctors working next to Jewish doctors’ to give the false sense of equality and equal status.
A more compelling and honest documentary or reality TV show that would do some good for the people involved would be to follow every-day Palestinians in Gaza or the West Bank or E. Jerusalem around. Why not one about Hebron?
No Jewish Zionist here would want that though. Because then you’d see the typical Nazi behavior of those settlers and of the IDF. You’d see the daily oppression of the Occupation.
That would truly open people’s eyes.
All this Zionist piece of filth will do is damage control for Gaza. Why not just re-run Schindler’s List a zillion times? Or 24, or lame 1980s action movies, or any other mainstream orientalist Hollywood flick.
There are plenty of studies on the deep-seated racism and bigotry of Hollywood (mobilized by ethnocentric Zionist Jews) towards the Arab world.
But the purpose of this ‘reality’ show is to present a skewed reality and indoctrinate people to the Zionist perspective after the horror show that was Operation Cast Lead.
It’s really shameless – these people. They get up there and say or imply their impartiality with a straight face.